I always forget to do my reality checks. I am so tired right now, it's half past 3 am in the morning and I have to end two papers with about 15 pages for today. topic is poststructuralism. the fuck, I put it off for 5 months till the last fucking day and here I am, mixing this thread up with twitter.

Go and finish your paper. Stop wasting time!!!!

I did it!

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Good job buddy! Now I have to study for my finals next week. If only I could study in my lucid dreams.

You actually can do it, some peoples put headphones on while they are sleapping and listen over and over what they have to learn.

Like this?

There's no evidence that that actually works. It certainly doesn't seem to, or else schools would be taking full advantage of it.

They are still researching because someone suspect there would be collateral effects on the long time period (exactly like in the video:D).
And while doing this the brain don't really get much rest:|

Thanks man! your finals, what are the topics?


Lol I instantly thought of the same thing; love this episode.

Just stupid stuff to get my AA. Beginning Chemistry, which is full of a bunch of nursing students that are like "OH MY GOD. THIS IS SO CONFUSING." US History, and a Visual Basic programming test; but I'm doing that one online so HA. Nothing really hard, just pretty boring. I was gonna try to get to sleep early tonight, so I can just finish all my last homework crap in the morning, but I guess that's not happening.

You remember that Dexter's Lab episode too? It's brilliant. When Asmoden said stuff about listening to tapes in your sleep I couldn't help but think of that. I don't know why, but I laugh like a little 10 year old boy when I watch that clip. I think the person who put it together made it way too long though, I didn't realize it just repeats 100 times over.

That's rather the point of these videos, like so:

Either spit or swallow. Pick one.

Man, what a dick.

Ok Im actually supposed to sleep right now, but i woke up. I sorta kinda think i had a dream that changed into a lucid dream that then changed back into regular dream.

I just wanna write it here cos it's a concept that I wanna remember. Then Im going back

I started dreaming of a monster. Just that. White background, nothing else there. It was slowly floating towards me. I remember thinking in my dream that this was something silly to dream, and that the monster wasn't even scary enough. So then I focused on making it look as nasty and scary as possible. It worked. The monster looked like something you could find in the Silent hill games. But then, I was like "eh, Im too tired for this, I wanna go back to rgular dream", so I did. I think I wanna try to draw it, but dunno if I'll remember what it looked like by the morning.

But... If lucid dreaming can help me think up scary and nasty things, then hell yeah :p My mind is filled with cutesy crap in the daytime. I need inspiration from the darkest corners of my minds.

hey if you really could draw this, that would be so cool

I'd like to see some freaky thing too. I think it's getting harder for me to remember my dreams, more and more all the time. Sometimes, they're just too weird to explain or just really mundane stuff. And lucid dreaming, I don't know, I don't think I can do it.
I had a dream I was in some palace thing and I had to squeeze myself through this square in the floor for some reason. heeeh
I've also had nightmares of being in the hospital with some horrible disease or something, that's not even real. And I start becoming kind of part-machine (I guess) because the doctors and stuff treated me like that, or else I'd be dead in the dream. That's the best way I can explain it, but there as more to it.
I kind of have dreams too where I'm not really in them. You know? Sometimes I don't really have a sense of self in my dreams and just see a lot of images, or I see myself or what is supposed to be me in my dream from an outside perspective.

Oh I've had quite a few 3rd person perspective dreams.

writing down your dreams right after awakening actually will help you remember your dreams.
another thing. keep trying to initiate lucid dreaming. only of course if you really want to, but don't stop because you think you'll never dream lucid.

This night was the first time I realized in my dream that I was trying to dream lucid. well it didn't work, but I was thinking of this constantly while dreaming. So I guess these reality checks seem to work.

Had another of those nightmare things again last night. Involved me trying to get out of bed, being pushed back in, rolled into a ball while a screaming noise filled my ears. I also went into my sister's room, where I thought she was clawing at my neck, when actually, she wasn't. I knew this time it was a dream because her bed was in the wrong place. But, it's still scaring me and I'm actually kind of worried about going to sleep tonight.

Ok here's what you do, it's simple but requires a certain amount of power:

When the nightmare begins, if you realise it's a nightmare, try and wake up, just try to open your eyes or keep telling yourself to wake up. If this fails your are going to have to try and stop whatever is scaring you so slow down, take a breath and try to turn your dream into something else, turn the scary bit into an action theme like a movie...try and give yourself some weapon and kill whatever it is attacking you. This can be done but sometimes your brain simply refuses to allow it and alters your thoughts subconsciously.

If you wake up terrified, turn on your bedside lamp and try to work out in a logical mind, what it was and why it happened, I know it's hard because sometimes I suffer from a random bouts of fear of darkness, apply logic to why you are having nightmares, are you stressed or have you been drinking? Put yourself into a happy place and just sleep again.

If it's really bad an you are a religious person, try saying a known prayer in your head over and over.

Hope this helps =)

Thanks for the advice. It was weird how I actually got out of the dream. I had to keep trying to roll over and off the bed, but every time I tried I kept getting pushed back. I slowly had to slide over, and eventually woke up in the same position as I was in in the dream.

Hmm, well that's one way

Has anyone read this thread and said to themself "Self, everyone here is a fucking liar"? Anyone? It's just me?

I take anything anyone ever says on the net with a pinch of salt

I meant you, especially.

Yeh I lie myself shitless! But amazingly, I'm usually honest on this forum. Weird

Or that could be a lie also.

Or it could be the most truthful thing you ever heard but then, your existence could be a lie...cogito ergo sum!

I've done two and a half years of philosophy and I know deep statements when I read them.

That was deep man.